The JVP Insurrections

2023 ж. 3 Ақп.
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In the early 1970s and 1980s two insurgencies stalked the countryside of southern Sri Lanka. They were horrifyingly brutal, and yet few in the outside world know about them. Inspired by a utopian Marxist ideology, the JVP carried out a campaign of terror, and yet this was dwarfed by the government's response. This video covers both JVP insurrections, and discusses how this shaped the relationship between violence and the Sri Lankan government that continues to echo throughout the island.
Sources:
-A History of Sri Lanka, K. M. de Silva
-Elephant Complex; Travels in Sri Lanka, John Gimlette
-The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers, Gordon Weiss
-The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History, Sanjeev Sanyal
-This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War, Samanth Subramanian
+ Various news sources, especially The Economist
00:00 Intro
02:25 Origins
04:13 1st JVP Insurrection
08:10 Matara to Hambantota
11:40 Yala National Park
15:46 2nd JVP Insurrection
22:23 Legacy
24:00 Testimony

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  • I was born in 1980 and I didn't know a country that was going through "Peace" times until 2009. I am 42 now and I can tell you one thing about Sri Lankans - no matter what race - that people don't want to admit. We are crushed by economic difficulties and so many crises that keep happening one after the other (has been happening from before independence). There is no reckoning or any means or even attempts to unite and calm down the population. People are angry all the time and look for any reason to get violent. Also, every time the common man gets a shred of political power, it's crushed. Gotabhaya Rajapakse did leave under the insurmountable pressure of the public, but the Rajapakse family is still in power through their proxy, their so-called long time rival, the acting President Ranil Wickremasinghe. There is a reason nobody revolts now, even though people are being taxed out of their ears and corruption still reigns. People know how ruthless RW is and that he will stop at nothing to keep what power he has. People don't have freedom anymore. People are poor, they have seen prices of goods increase by 200% within 2022 itself, with no increase in income, and it's not long before something major happens in this country. It's no wonder whoever can leave the country, does. I went to get passports for my kids last year, and there were more than 3000 people lined up where the daily capacity for issuing passports is usually 500. People wait until 1:30 in the morning to get their passports so they can leave the country as soon as possible. The visa processing facilities for countries like UK, Australia, Canada, etc. have long lines of people outside them. Sportsmen (other than Cricketers) have disappeared whenever they have gone to other countries for international competition, because they believe living illegally in another country is better than living in their own motherland.

    @nirmalsuki@nirmalsuki7 ай бұрын
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      @csnoorbd@csnoorbd3 ай бұрын
  • I waited for this since your last series, this is amazing. Thank You

    @AkbarPul10@AkbarPul10 Жыл бұрын
    • Thanks Akbar!

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you so much for your videos! You are a genius the way you use the travel videos mixed with history. I have learned vital info about Sri Lanka from your teaching

    @anonymous203020@anonymous20302010 ай бұрын
  • Ahhhh finally! I’ve been checking your channel every now and then for weeks for the next video. Can’t wait for you to cover the civil war period.

    @har2252@har2252 Жыл бұрын
    • Starting work on it now! They are big videos though, so it might be a few weeks

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
  • Your work is truly a blessing, I love the way you have edited your travels and merged them with the bloody content. Insightful and amazing as the rest of the series.

    @chamara5309@chamara5309 Жыл бұрын
    • Wow, thank you! I'm trying to get the next ones out asap, but they do take a while

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
  • Honestly. I waited to watch all your videos on Sri Lanka to leave a comment and the first thing I want to tell you in thank you. Thank you for documenting our history and sharing it in such a captivating way on a platform where our future generations can learn about our bloodied history. We certainly do not have the capability to create such a masterpiece. I hope my fellow Sri Lankans share this with their friends and family so that we never forget what happened and never let this happen ever again

    @shevaankapuwatte@shevaankapuwatte7 ай бұрын
  • Thank you for doing this. In 1980S Sri Lanka government specially J. R Jayawardena wanted to band JVP and he did it, just after black July 1983. Black July were planed by J. R Jayawardena and other UNP politicians by bringing 13 bodies of Army soldiers' who were killed by the LTTE, to Colombo for their funeral, while informed to the people via media to joint with the final funeral event. At this moment, planned UNP apolitical carders start set fire on Tami business and started looting their assets. The mass killing were speeded over the century more than 4 days and eventually government banned LTTE & JVP at the same time. The leaders worried and scarred loosing power against growing your generation with JVP. JVP had no chose apart of taking weapons for own safety. I don't believed JVP killed Vijaya Kumaratunga, instead I blame to R Premadasa, who killed all valuable people including Lalit Athulathmudali and rest of the young generation who got visions of future.

    @MW-tn9dv@MW-tn9dv7 ай бұрын
    • this is the truth, well said

      @nelumsanjay4696@nelumsanjay46967 ай бұрын
    • This is the truth all should be aware of.

      @ShaneAlwis@ShaneAlwis7 ай бұрын
  • Thank you Alex for researching on the JVP insurrection and presenting the facts. This video will undoubtedly enlighten the younger generation of Sri Lanka's modern history together with others which you had done. Thank you.

    @lakshmankarunaratne3541@lakshmankarunaratne35418 ай бұрын
  • Been waiting for this one for a long time, this video series is the only video series (that I've seen) about Sri Lanka that explains things from a neutral point of view without taking any sides. For that I thank you. Something that is not mentioned in this video is the reason that law enforcement and military were so brutal against the JVP. the thing is certain amount of the law enforcement and military were supportive of JVP because they came from the same towns and villages and they knew the hardships of those people. But since JVP is anti government they started threatening military and law enforcement personnel and their families. I don't know much about the first JVP Insurrection, but specially during the second JVP Insurrection, JVP killed families (Parents, Wives, Husbands Children, and relatives) of military & police personnel (Specially the personnel that fought in the north because they were still in the north after the IPKF came and wasn't around their families to protect them). Imagine fighting for your country day and night, weeks and months just to find out that your entire family has been murdered by the JVP because they were serving their country! so when the government unleashed them they just went out of control.

    @dreamcatcher5572@dreamcatcher5572 Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you so much for your comment! I had read about the JVP targeting of families, and that point was in an early version of the video, but ultimately I cut it to avoid it being too long. However your comment gives some extra detail that I hadn't read about, so thank you very much for sharing!

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
    • @@AlexRothman Anytime, and we Thank you again for this video series. Keep up the good work and we are looking forward to the next one💪

      @dreamcatcher5572@dreamcatcher5572 Жыл бұрын
    • I don't want to go to any debate over the killing of families of military, but I have an uncle who was an army soldier during 88/89 JVP rebel who has a different experience. As per him these killing of families of military was done by government aided thugs to provoke the members in police and military against the JVP since they also had enough of the then government and at the beginning of the rebel the military also didn’t oppose the rebel. Anyway these are just stories I heard.

      @thats_whatshesaid@thats_whatshesaid Жыл бұрын
    • ​@@thats_whatshesaid Yeah, I've heard the same stuff about the government involvement though. But can't say for sure.

      @dreamcatcher5572@dreamcatcher5572 Жыл бұрын
    • @@AlexRothman ​ Also forgot to mention that there were also lot's of good military and police personnel that tried to do the right thing and save many youths from getting killed, but didn't always succeed. Another reason that Soviets' and Chinese also helped the Sri Lankan government instead of the JVP in the 1st Insurrection is that even though Sri Lanka is a democratic country it followed a communist type of economy (IDK How to exactly explain that). for example every family had coupons to buy Rice, Bread and certain other food, and the country had a closed economy where most of the imports were stopped so that we can build our own stuff. at the time it was working quite well, people were making stuff, from cloths to cars. Unfortunately the next governments didn't follow that path and started a open economy and started importing things and all of the Sri Lankan businesses kind of went bankrupt because imported goods were much cheaper. Another thing is that many JVP members and supporters who were university students studying STEM subjects in the universities didn't want to follow that path after they graduated because they came from poor families and had nothing but worked hard to go to college and since they studied in STEM fields most of them got jobs and they went from poor families to well paid engineers, doctors, etc... So they were like "well guess I'm not doing that anymore" I know this because I've met many people like that. Also I've met few people who still follow & support the JVP even though they do have everything they need and want!

      @dreamcatcher5572@dreamcatcher5572 Жыл бұрын
  • The JVP insurrections and the Sri Lankan Civil War remind me of the Troubles of Northern Ireland. Except far more violent. I'm glad to see that people in recent years have started bringing up lesser known conflicts from other parts of the world. Keep up the good work.

    @shadowleon659@shadowleon659 Жыл бұрын
    • Thanks for watching!

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
  • 16:18 wijeweera never promised or wanted to create sinhalese nation🤚 There was Sinhalese buddhist government even then and he fought against it by misguiding poor sinhalese , please learn more and correct that one and also wijeweera was a christian guy and he is not even sinhalese his grate grandfather was migrated to ceylon from kerala south india ,during colonial period as slave cinnamon maker and after converted to christianity from hinduism. Sinhalese were good enough to treat him as their own brother but as a result nearly 100000 of young village sinhalese had to die during his wars.🤔

    @john_____@john_____ Жыл бұрын
    • To that end, the fact that people embrace JVP ideologies, is very funny. They have forgotten what the JVP got them into, or simply don't have the mental capacity to comprehend.

      @VisithDantanarayana1993@VisithDantanarayana19937 ай бұрын
    • @@VisithDantanarayana1993 Thinking that modern JVP is similiar to current NPP is ignorant.

      @heransd@heransdАй бұрын
    • ​@@heransd Anura was also a part of the insurrection in 88 89, he is no different 😅😂 I know people will elect him and disaster might happen

      @exoels@exoels13 күн бұрын
    • That’s all you know about Lankan politics. Caste system had a huge influence on Lankan politics. Not directly though. But a long time made certain castes powerful and the rest wasn’t. UNP mostly consisted of westernised sinhalese were belonging to karawa and radala caste in Sri Lanka. Later sinhala buddhist govigama and karawa people in un urbanised were brought to politics by SLFP founded by Bandaranaike. Later Wijeweera found the low caste sinhalese as an opportunity to come to politics. Wijeweera was a halanduru.

      @cdeux3059@cdeux305912 күн бұрын
  • As always great content. Truth is, there's always unimaginable blood shed throughout the history of this tiny island.

    @harindugamlath@harindugamlath Жыл бұрын
    • Sadly so true. And yet on a personal level, Sri Lankans are so wonderful and kind. It's really difficult to understand how both things coexist

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
    • @@AlexRothman That's something even I cannot tell exactly why as a sri lankan. There's always every kind of religious people speaking about all types of good deeds and stuff and the next day you'll see the exact opposite behavior. I imagine it's caused by the true under developed nature of the country. You may see smiling people but the truth is they maybe struggling to make ends meet, always under pressure. No matter what you were thought in any way or religion if you're hard pressed every day things like that may happen. I think it comes down to the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (the pyramid). If you cannot really make it to the stable base you'll always be taken advantage of.

      @harindugamlath@harindugamlath Жыл бұрын
  • Very simple yet detailed. Great stuff. Keep it up mate.

    @syedmohammadaanasfarukh890@syedmohammadaanasfarukh8904 ай бұрын
  • Your videos are wildly underrated 👏☯️

    @MsDboyy@MsDboyy10 ай бұрын
  • This is an event that is being largely forgotten by most of us. This MUST keep on being spoken about.

    @bernadinerodrigo5789@bernadinerodrigo5789 Жыл бұрын
    • Why do you think it isn't?

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
    • @@AlexRothman Largely because both the victims and the oppressors were singhalese therefore the events not having a racial tilt to be constantly talked about or at least connect any negative emotion with the events that could be commonly felt.

      @user-sv2fc6mu4w@user-sv2fc6mu4w Жыл бұрын
  • Your videos are amazing, keep it up Mr. Alex!

    @colm5672@colm5672 Жыл бұрын
    • Thanks for watching Colm!

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
  • fantastic video. I would love to see one on the other Tamil insurgent groups such as TELO, TELA, EPRLF, TEA, PLOTE and EROS.

    @djpeekay25@djpeekay258 ай бұрын
  • Great Alex, This is a good unbiased commentary on this subject , Thanks.

    @scottmclearn6949@scottmclearn69498 ай бұрын
  • great video looking forward to see your next video

    @triyoshankavinda3401@triyoshankavinda3401 Жыл бұрын
    • Thanks a lot! More to come!

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
  • Rohana Wijeweera was a hero amongst many Sinhalese people he helped the poor and gave a voice to the voiceless but he wanted to genuinely help the Sri Lankan poor people in the country from the rich elites the government mass murdered innocent Sinhalese people in numbers to this day people have not been found.

    @dannygzz9286@dannygzz9286 Жыл бұрын
    • Guy was a mass murdering communist. He was only supported by brainwashed innocent poor people and typical university moronic crowds. Dont try to act like the guy was a saint. One of my relatives lost a close friend to this murderous lowlife because he refused to pay extortion money.

      @stealthworx4371@stealthworx43719 ай бұрын
  • JVP is so similar to Naxalite movement in India. Both of their leaders sons and daughters live happy life in Capitalist countries while convincing failed communist ideologies to the poor youth.

    @usernameis9157@usernameis9157 Жыл бұрын
    • Absolutely

      @sajith2176@sajith21767 ай бұрын
    • Communism basically in a nutshell.

      @heransd@heransdАй бұрын
  • What yo missed to compare was rate of killings. The war with LTTE claimed 300000 lives but that was over 25 years. It was about 12000 per year. The JVP insurgency saw 60000 dead in two years. The rate of killings, show it was much more brutal down in south.

    @rangaweerakkody165@rangaweerakkody1657 ай бұрын
  • I don't think it's a coincidence that you posted this on Feb 4th, the Sri Lankan independence day! By the way you'll find it far more exciting to learn about the current part played in Sri Lankan politics by the JVP, with its rising popularity among the youth, mostly of the urban middle class. There was even such a loud support in the "Gota go Home" campaign for the National People's Power (NPP) which is a coalition led by the JVP. They actually were kind of social media favourites in the last decade, as most people who use social media platforms such as Facebook are the youth. But this favour didn't reflect in the votes in the elections because most had to choose one from two main forces, which reduced actual votes for JVP who were always the third party. It's really interesting to see what would happen in the upcoming elections of Sri Lanka.

    @PasanMahindapala@PasanMahindapala Жыл бұрын
    • You know, I found it really hard to wrap my head around what the JVP are now. I talked to people about it but it still doesn't make sense to me how they can be considered a normal or semi-normal political party, given what they used to stand for. Any insight? What issues are they mainly campaigning on? And how do they react when they are held to account for the insurrections? Do some people still sympathise with their goals back in the 70s and 80s?

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
    • @@AlexRothman Well, what I have to say here would be mostly my understanding of the facts. I think people here always tend to see the ruling power - not as a representation of them, but as kind of an "enemy of the people", even though they themselves have elected them. This is kind of fair, because the political system is hugely corrupted, and the blame is pinned on the two major political parties/ camps. With the recent economic crisis, this hate grew much more as people demanded to investigate the corrupt Rajapakse regime, hopefully to regain the state's "stolen money". Rajapaksa family and their cronies became probably the most hated group of people in the country in 2022 as the nepotism and large scale corruption allegations against them were supported by the international incidents like the "Pandora papers", revealing the family's wealth to be even more than all of the country's reserves. This is where the JVP comes into play. As identified in your video, the JVP now mainly campaigns on anti-corruption. They also did some investigation work in revealing the corruption of the Rajapaksas, earning the favor of many people. Also, few of the parliamentarians of JVP once became ministers in an intermediary government under president Chandrika Kumaranatunge in 2004, and the ministers' performances are said to be exemplary. Recently, there's a large number of the educated professionals who sided with the NPP, which is a coalition led by the JVP. Than all of the above reasons, the JVP leaders are seen as a different kind of politicians, who come from humble beginnings, who don't live luxury lives as the other politicians. Therefore they could be seen as "leaders of the people" in the heated times of the "Aragalaya" (protests) of 2022. This is most clearly seen in the May 10th incident when a small group of pro-rajapaksa protestors attacked the peaceful protests at the Galle face. They were mostly "village thugs" brought to Colombo by the regional leaders of SLPP, the Rajapaksas' party. This was clearly a planned attack which started from nowhere other than the official residence of the prime minister at the time: Mahinda Rajapaksa. In the aftermath of this incident, only the leader of the NPP (and JVP) could visit the Galle face because even the opposition leader Sajith Premadasa was faced with angry protestors throwing stones at him and his guard. At that moment the JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was praised by the protestors for coming there without having any guards, "ready to face the threat standing side by side with the protestors". At this time, there were also allegations of "state-induced violence" in the form of law enforcement. Ideas were expressed, looking back on the 88, 89 JVP insurrections, stating that "most of the violence back then was perpetrated by none other than the government, which made some of it look like the JVP committed them". Many young people started to believe that they did right in the form of a "rebellion against the corrupt politicians", despite its extreme marxist and sinhalese-nationalist beginnings. Also, as you have noticed, the JVP now has changed its marxist and nationalist motives to a more liberal, modern ideology, mainly with their rebranding as the NPP. This is a successful strategy of giving people what they need to see. Even though the JVP has a very dark past, many of its current supporters only need vague excuses to leave all that past behind. Also, I personally think the change of leadership in the JVP has resulted in much change as there are very few remaining in the leadership from the insurrection times. Another main excuse they provide for the 88/89 insurrections is that after 1971 rebellions, they came wholeheartedly into the democratic politics. But they blame the JR Jayawardena government back then for unfairly banning their party, after the "Black July" incident of 1983 which they claim to have no involvement in. After the ban, they claims that the initial violent acts were also committed by the government, to make them look like the culprit. No one knows the truth as most of the crimes went unpunished and even un-investigated. However, we have to keep in mind: "Winners write the history"

      @PasanMahindapala@PasanMahindapala Жыл бұрын
    • @@PasanMahindapala Thank you very much for such a detailed reply. Everything you say makes sense, and I feel I understand a little bit better after reading your thoughts!

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
    • @@AlexRothman It's my pleasure to be of help. Your video series is one of the most informative and unbiased documentaries on Sri Lanka, describing both the surface and also the hidden side. Many thanks!

      @PasanMahindapala@PasanMahindapala Жыл бұрын
    • @@AlexRothman Need to add this to Skippy s comment. . After the 2019 easter sunday bomb attack, the people are starting to believe that all of those events are just politicians playing their Aces to take the advantage of their game of policitcs. As for the context, people belive the bomb attack is just a political campaign to make Gotabaya Rajapaksha, the president. It worked, if that's true. After that, people specially the young generation started to re think about the dark ages in SL with this idealogy and it kinda makes sense in most cases. . Now this generation is skeptical about all of the movements happening around SL more than ever. Whether they are related to a political game. . You ask how much skeptical. The answer is yes. . Personally I feel like this video is also a product of another campaign to bring down the floating votes of NPP. Because the election is near. JK.... Or am I not.

      @thamidudharshitha5515@thamidudharshitha5515 Жыл бұрын
  • next election i'm gonna vote jvp led NPP🙂sice 1977 SLFP/UNP parties,get the power and destroyed this beautiful island..Next election will be critical for SL future.(Now there are no 2 parties because they joint and controlling now)funfacts is our president is defeated from election he came to power from parliment not a peoples's vote

    @tharukajayasinghe7958@tharukajayasinghe7958 Жыл бұрын
  • Why did you put Indian music over the videos of Sri Lanka? You are making a documentary about SL but seems like you can’t tell Sri Lanka apart from India.

    @diwyanvithana1393@diwyanvithana1393 Жыл бұрын
    • Do we have a distinctive sound from India?

      @generic395@generic395 Жыл бұрын
    • Because it is very hard to find royalty free Sri Lankan music.

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
    • @@AlexRothman Fair point

      @nimmanadevapriya4207@nimmanadevapriya4207 Жыл бұрын
    • This was the other thing I thought of saying because I couldn't hear a very clear difference (aside from language) but of course as I'm not super familiar with either type of music, so I'm not sure I would notice the difference anyway

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
    • If anyone knows of a good place to find royalty free Sri lankan music, please do share

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
  • Can you do a content about rajapaksha family too my brother

    @user-yc2nh6wf4i@user-yc2nh6wf4i7 ай бұрын
  • they killed the backbone of a country and what happen we r dead nation with great humans with corrupt politcs,hats off sir u done great

    @maheshwijesooriya2458@maheshwijesooriya2458 Жыл бұрын
  • Sri lanka has always had turmoil all throughout its history. Forgetting is a part of sinhalese mentality, its how they cope with overwhelming misery and brutality each generation has undergone. It is how we recover because we know that good times are short. One might ask how we sri lankans still have a smile on their faces after facing all these odds, it’s because we forget and move one. Im only 27 years old but I have witnessed a war , a tsunami a social revolution that overthrew a government. Only 7 years of my life I have seen stability and peace

    @craigsrck4382@craigsrck4382 Жыл бұрын
  • Fun fact: the Insurrection was supposed to happen om the 6th and not the 5th. My Grandfather was close friends with Mr. Wijeweera. It was by accident that the Government found out about the Insurrection and that they had to start fighting before they had to be prepared. This was why it was bad in the first Insurrection. Thats all im here for.

    @Aogustanyan_Rep.@Aogustanyan_Rep. Жыл бұрын
  • Hi alex, In this video you are missing some strings of the big story. As a person who currently living in sri lanka And have some experience on this case I would like to add the missing strings. After 71 Most of the JVP members kept in the prisons. After disabling "Aparada Yukthi Commision" they were released. They were active in their politics. Wijewira participated the election in 1982 and he was the third in the country. J.R. jayewardene was the president for the second time. He had 5/6 parliament portion at that time. Election procedure changed. If paliment election was held with the new system three or four parliament members would have been in the parliament from JVP and J.R. is going to lose that 5/6 portion. But election was postponed. To Postpone an election he (current president) should held an election asking permission from people to do so according to the constitution. Jayewardene did that. But according to the election history it was a corrupted election. All that happened around 1983. Some collecting boxes never came to the counting centers. in 1983 there were small group of rebel teams in the north. Some police officers were killed by them in 1983. President and the government took the advantage and brought those bodies to colombo(Capital).. They led the rage to grow. In July, President Jayewardene announced all the police officers to take a leave. It was an order. Supporters from the ruling party (UNP) started killing tamil cilivilians. They were burnt alive on the streets. It was all planned. Some parliament members Including Gamini Lokuge, Ranil Wickramasinghe (Current president) went to jafna and they burnt the Jafna Library. They took their supporters to jafna. Most of them were police officers. They Started killing tamil civilians in the North. Thats how 30 years of war actually started. Civillians from both sides paid the price. After some days JVP and some other parties were banned from politics saying they are the one who done that disaster. It was all political. Government Released other parties but not the JVP. First JVP member killed in 1984 by the government. At that time they don't have guns or anything. 1985 ,1986 government hunt JVP members and killed them. In 1987 Indian forces landed on North. President was about to going for a agreement with them. First JVP attack was against Indian Army in 1987. Their was a protest against government in1987 in the Colombo forcing government to not to go with that agreement. Government opened a fire, killing 100's of Sinhala civilians monks and University student. (J.R. still President). J.V.P. attacked Sri Lankan military camps to collect weopns. At that time they only had handmade guns and etc. Sometimes Sri Lankan soldiers supported JVP. 1988 December presidential election held. Ranasinghe Premadasa elected as president. J.R. Ruled country for 10 years. Government started to increase JVP hunting. Government has everything including press media etc. Some UNP members started to killing other party members and all the credit went to JVP. Yes of course JVP killed civilians. Most of them were UNP members who gives information to the government. Some JVP members took the advantage to cover their personal problems. They Started to looting houses and shops. Everything went wrong for the JVP side. Government had Para military groups who had guns. Most of them were controlled by parliament members. Yellow cats, Pra, Black cats are some group of them. Some members of these groups still lives today. Those groups started to kill their military leaders. Some Families killed by these para military groups and Only military leader was left alive. Thats how they broke the bond between army and JVP. Strategy worked. Those military leaders becomes Killers. I can give you a example. He passed away few years ago. They started to killing civilians including school children. Some school girls from Kalutara district kidnapped by these military personals, Rap...ed and killed. A well known slauter house situated in Batalanda. Commanded by Ranil Wickremesnghe the current president in Sri Lanka. Those military personal went crazy. Civillians caught by these para military groups or military groups never came home. Boddies was just a every day thing in life. Wijewira captured and killed. in 1993 Karma stopped president actions. He killed by a bomb. It was done by LTTE. But hunting never ended. 1994 1995 until Government released the restriction on JVP it happened. JVP scattered. Nothing left. They started their politics again in the country after release. They won 48 parliament seats just after horror era. Again in 2012 Government Underworld opened a fire in a JVP meeting and killed two civillians in Hambantota District. Government won and they wrote the history. History was written by winners Not Loosers.

    @TheroChannel@TheroChannel7 ай бұрын
  • Our current president had the biggest JVP execution camp during that time period.

    @pavansenarath7551@pavansenarath75517 ай бұрын
  • Great content 👌 keep it up bro

    @geenodranasinghe@geenodranasinghe Жыл бұрын
    • Thanks, will do!

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
  • Remember that history is always written by the winner, not the loser. You need to do extensive research to know the hidden history. Or what it seems may not be truth. I accept that this is an unbiased neutral discussion. But this is too brief

    @hadiod3870@hadiod38707 ай бұрын
  • These uprising brought voices to Poorest singalese and tamils who were excluded in Education,jobs and Middle class similar uprising happened all societies all over the world throughout history.

    @ceylontea5877@ceylontea587710 ай бұрын
  • My aunts saw heads on top of their local bus stand when they were going to school

    @ragunathtikiri480@ragunathtikiri4807 ай бұрын
  • Came to know about JVP insurrection which I had been interested for many years , although I’ve heard different stories and conspiracy theories from my grand parents and elder citizens I know of none of them were clear and transparent. Also I just went on a safari ride which I have never been on 😅 , bro should start a whole Netflix series at this point I’m pretty you are among top 5% of creators based on content quality . Keep up good luck 🫡

    @assassinsbrotherhood4827@assassinsbrotherhood48272 ай бұрын
  • Great content!

    @dhanikaj@dhanikaj Жыл бұрын
    • Thanks for watching!

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
  • Correct the infomation priminister R Premadasa kill by LTTE terrorists not jvp

    @HowToNetworks@HowToNetworks Жыл бұрын
    • *it was an attempted assasination of Premadasa, as I say in the vid

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
    • Oh Do you mean Terrorist Singhalese government.

      @sweetbadboy12@sweetbadboy122 ай бұрын
  • Sri Lankans didn't forget ! Sri Lankans forgive !

    @NirodhaSriLankan@NirodhaSriLankan7 ай бұрын
  • Generation before these brave young men and wome who died were very uneducated and used to live under a society where the elites ruled common man what ever the way they wanted. These people tried to eliminate this corrupted system which prevails in Sri lanka up until today

    @Explorer55612@Explorer556127 ай бұрын
  • Great video 👍🏻

    @gamepissa436@gamepissa436 Жыл бұрын
    • Thanks 👍 Glad you enjoyed

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
  • Hello Alex You must also note that there were interconnections where JVPs manipulation of people to fight each other sinhala* and Tamil* , they executed their own political agendas so they could succeed their goals by breaking down the government…💯 the interconnection here was connection to the LTTE war in the end I’m a Sri Lankan, all these are 100% true. Peabhakaran, JVP, got their advantage through innocent people’s lives

    @knightx9405@knightx9405 Жыл бұрын
  • Amnesty International say's that 60,000 has disappeared or killed

    @sampathrathnapura@sampathrathnapura7 ай бұрын
  • Thanks for posting I will definitely share this if this goes along my political beliefs.

    @Man-of-Steel674@Man-of-Steel674 Жыл бұрын
    • I would be very interested to know what those are

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
  • Bloody hell...your basically digging up purposely deleted history ...I am living in sri lanka and my dad was A/L student during 1971 and stories he told me about that and 1988/89 terror times weren't this detailed..Now I can't wait to go home to show this video to dad..

    @heshangunarathna3262@heshangunarathna3262 Жыл бұрын
    • Thanks a lot for watching and commenting! I've put a ton of work into the vids and it's great to get a response like yours. More videos are on their way!

      @AlexRothman@AlexRothman Жыл бұрын
    • @@AlexRothman seriously your production quality is top notch...I love it...

      @heshangunarathna3262@heshangunarathna3262 Жыл бұрын
  • hi im frome sri lanka

    @shehanadems6234@shehanadems62348 ай бұрын
  • Mr Alex may be the reader but it's apparent who the writers are 😂 JVP was correct all along!!

    @avinduTLGun@avinduTLGun7 ай бұрын
  • Same thing happened to Tamils over 30 yrs, over 250 000 Tamils got killed in the name of war. Genocide in the name of war. Shame on the SL government.

    @tamilpatriot7815@tamilpatriot78154 ай бұрын
  • The 1971 uprisings was to overthrow the British Queens government, if the jvp is wrong tgen Weerapuruappu are wrong etc. It was a uprising for independence for the country.

    @wellingtonfredrick3351@wellingtonfredrick33517 ай бұрын
  • In modern days, JVP is the most popular political party in Srilanka. They will surely win all the upcoming elections and lead Srilanka to prosperity. Communism will win....🚩

    @tharinduliyanage8954@tharinduliyanage89545 ай бұрын
  • Honestly though, your content and research deserves a Netflix documentary! 💯🫡

    @yehanfernando8323@yehanfernando83237 ай бұрын
  • Srilanka is almost like Bengal ❤

    @csnoorbd@csnoorbd3 ай бұрын
  • And if JVP start another insurgency like this again, we the Nationalistic Sinhalese will end them once and for all. Letting them go, after such horrible atrocities against Sinhalese people was a huge mistake. The government should have end them there.

    @eran1646@eran16468 ай бұрын
    • Oh, you 🐃 this time regime will disappear for ever. 🦂

      @lifo365@lifo3657 ай бұрын
    • @@lifo365 I don't care about who ever comes to power. As long as it's not JVP

      @eran1646@eran16467 ай бұрын
    • Who killed 60000 sinhala youth? You are using racism to protect the 100 corny capitalist families

      @wellingtonfredrick3351@wellingtonfredrick33517 ай бұрын
  • THIS IS A WRONG PROPAGANDA GIVING BY THIS MAN, SOME ONE MUST HAVE PAID HIM TO THIS.

    @samdam9561@samdam95617 ай бұрын
    • 100% correct it's a paid capitalist

      @wellingtonfredrick3351@wellingtonfredrick33517 ай бұрын
    • It seems like this guy owns this channel is just a selling toy to corrupted politicians

      @tharinduliyanage8954@tharinduliyanage89545 ай бұрын
  • ❤️❤️❤️JVP💪💪💪

    @adnannafeel6290@adnannafeel62907 ай бұрын
  • Not only J.V.P. with TIGER on northern Provence 😗

    @anurarajapaksha270@anurarajapaksha2707 ай бұрын
  • The LTTE and JVP are two sides of the same coin.

    @bainbridgeisland1@bainbridgeisland17 ай бұрын
  • Bcs people who rule the country are not Sinhalese or Tamils, they are kandy nayak telugus. Watch Kandy nayak movie time 1h 16 min.

    @tamilpatriot7815@tamilpatriot78154 ай бұрын
  • ආ ඒකට කමක් නෑ මේ පාර චන්දේ මාලිමාවට තමා 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    @laughingmonkey3758@laughingmonkey37587 ай бұрын
    • පිස්සු නමි දුන්නට කමක් නැ 70/87-90 අමතකද? කි දාහක් මැ රැවද

      @RaptorF22Titanium@RaptorF22Titanium7 ай бұрын
    • 😂😂😂 Guu hathai

      @devinperera2336@devinperera23367 ай бұрын
    • නාකි හැත්ත මේ රට කාල ඉවරයි. අපි ගම් පිටින් මිනිස්සු එකතු කරල ඉවරයි. මාලිමාව දිනල ඉවරයි....🚩🧭

      @tharinduliyanage8954@tharinduliyanage89545 ай бұрын
  • Hoo nose maybe sri lanka wood become the next cambodgia iff this lvp win

    @vicsaiistvan2180@vicsaiistvan218010 ай бұрын
    • then vote for fox ranil and bullshit rajapaksa thieves..

      @lifo365@lifo3657 ай бұрын
  • I am sri lankan

    @user-kv8yq4uy6j@user-kv8yq4uy6j6 ай бұрын
  • Sri Lanka has been socialist ever since the remarkable Bracegirdle incident, and my own father was a communist in his youth.

    @markbracegirdle7110@markbracegirdle71104 ай бұрын
  • and wijaya kumaranathung was not assisinated by Jvp . do a proper research before posting fales shananigans

    @amilanisansalalianage5197@amilanisansalalianage51977 ай бұрын
  • lots of false information i think >50%

    @MrAlinda1978@MrAlinda197810 ай бұрын
    • cannot accepet the bitter truth ne gon jeppa.

      @KingRayleigh@KingRayleigh9 ай бұрын
    • @@KingRayleigh Fool

      @lahiruudaw9021@lahiruudaw90219 ай бұрын
    • @@KingRayleigh ane ban hondada hoyala igena gena waren moda kalakaniiya UNP haraka

      @MrAlinda1978@MrAlinda19789 ай бұрын
    • umbata monada puluwan umbatath karanna puluwan comment karana eka tjmai

      @MrAlinda1978@MrAlinda19789 ай бұрын
  • Young sinhala boys and girls and after young tamil boys and girls killed

    @hajandrasundar5066@hajandrasundar5066 Жыл бұрын
  • mr the information about 1989 killing totally wrong government para military groups done the most of killings .. how you got this wrong information ..

    @newssportsinfocus2642@newssportsinfocus264210 ай бұрын
    • I HAVE A FEELING SOME ONE MUST HAVE HIRE THIS IDIOT TO SPREAD FALSE INFOMATION AGAINST JVP.

      @samdam9561@samdam95617 ай бұрын
  • X

    @nicetomeetyou3396@nicetomeetyou3396 Жыл бұрын
  • JVP 😤

    @AkilaDananajaya-tc5gb@AkilaDananajaya-tc5gb8 ай бұрын
  • 😂 this guy knows nothing go deeper on history before you speak about it

    @docg7865@docg7865 Жыл бұрын
  • සිංහලයො සිංහලයොම මැරුවා

    @altair8390@altair83902 ай бұрын
  • So the Sinhala Buddhist Sri Lankan state was neither a state for a common Sinhalese nor a common Tamil. It was a genocidal racist state that was fuelling racism among the common people among the majority community and diverting them towards the community that was made minoirty by putting them under a single state and was leeching all the communities in the Island

    @avernushoyguy@avernushoyguy4 ай бұрын
  • Dear friends JVP is like ISIS not difference

    @nuwancb@nuwancb7 ай бұрын
  • Looks like pakistan going to same path....

    @boltgaming4663@boltgaming46637 ай бұрын
  • How much money did you get to make this video ? 😂😂😂😂😂

    @shipxpressbadmintonteam7531@shipxpressbadmintonteam75314 ай бұрын
  • We as a nation have to embrace capitalism, not this socialist-communist crap.

    @VisithDantanarayana1993@VisithDantanarayana19937 ай бұрын
    • Capitalism has failed all over the world

      @wellingtonfredrick3351@wellingtonfredrick33517 ай бұрын
    • we did for 75 yes

      @amilanisansalalianage5197@amilanisansalalianage51977 ай бұрын
  • Total set of lies just do your research

    @lahiruudaw9021@lahiruudaw902111 ай бұрын
    • jeppo🤮

      @KingRayleigh@KingRayleigh9 ай бұрын
  • JVP is the worst

    @JinathPremaratne@JinathPremaratne4 ай бұрын
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